"Veronica Mars" Drinking the Kool-Aid (2004)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Marcos Siega

Writers:

Rob Thomas (creator)
Russell Smith (teleplay) ...

TV Series:

"Veronica Mars" (2004)

Original Air Date:

30 November 2004 (Season 1, Episode 9)

Genre:

Drama | Crime | Mystery

Plot:

Against her father's wishes, Veronica infiltrates what she believes to be a cult in order to investigate a classmate's sudden change in personality...

Plot Keywords:

Heroine | Rape Victim | Murder | Father Son Relationship | High School Student

Cast

Kristen Bell	...	Veronica Mars
Percy Daggs III	...	Wallace Fennel
Teddy Dunn	...	Duncan Kane
Jason Dohring	...	Logan Echolls (credit only)
Francis Capra	...	Eli "Weevil" Navarro
Enrico Colantoni	...	Keith Mars
Jonathan Bennett	...	Casey Gant
Amy Laughlin	...	Holly Mills
Chris William Martin	...	Josh
Megalyn Echikunwoke	...	Rain / Debbie
Rebecca Kitt	...	Juanita Gant
Farhang Pernoon	...	Django
Courtnee Draper	...	Darcy
Inger Tudor	...	Restaurant Manager
Linda Castro	...	Mrs. Murphy

Filming Locations:

Stu Segall Studios, San Diego, California, USA

Company:

Rob Thomas Productions

Trivia:

The episode title is a nod to the widely-used phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid," which refers generally to the act of buying wholeheartedly into a belief, preference, or idea, and specifically to the 1978 Jonestown cult suicides in Guyana, in which cult leader Jim Jones poisoned (or convinced to self-poison) over 900 of his followers with a mixture of grape Flavor Aid, Valium, chloral hydrate, and probably cyanide.

Goofs:

Continuity: Throughout the early scenes of this episode, Veronica's nail color inexplicably changes between shots. In the street outside the prison gates, her hands rest on the steering wheel as she cries; her nails are painted a light white or heavy clear coat. In the next scene as she drives home from the prison, her nails are unchanged, but when she stops to vomit and later when she continues driving, her nails are suddenly dark red, brown or black. When she arrives home and her hands are seen in closeup, her nails are unpainted. In subsequent scenes, although she is wearing the same costume, her nails are black.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Gone with the Wind (1939)

Soundtrack:

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